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Block format is the new storage engine powering databases in Neo4j. It features better performance, hardware utilization and scalability over the previous engines. Let's explore how the graph data is stored on disk, why it is important and how it affects the performance of your queries.

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Valdemar Roxling

Software Engineer, Neo4j

Valdemar Roxling, Senior software engineer at Neo4j and the lead engineer on the block format project has for several years worked on optimizing performance and hardware utilization in database storage engines.